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A planned electoral overhaul in Indonesia will reverse democratic gains.
Traditionally, domestic issues dominate U.S. presidential elections, with a tiny fraction of voters giving top priority to foreign policy concerns. But this year could be different.
The Trump White House runs a foreign policy with irreconcilable objectives, no internal coherence, and no pretense of gaming out critical decisions before they are taken.
Putin’s foreign policy goal has been Russia’s return as a world power. The UN is a positive platform for this, but Russia’s rejection of external norms has paralyzed the institution.
We believe Lebanon’s public debt is unsustainable. We strongly recommend that the Lebanese government commences with a comprehensive restructuring effort to bring down the debt burden to a level the country can afford.
The EU could benefit from tapping into the smart ideas behind its many successful local projects, and then adapting them to benefit other member states.
The Russian president may never leave the political stage—but he's now ready to take a step back.
Without corrective action, the United States and Europe will drift further apart over the 2020s, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
It is time to rethink the belief that solutions are impossible and that encryption means law enforcement officials cannot do their jobs. By breaking the debate down into its component parts and looking at points of agreement, there is a path toward a more fruitful and more civil debate.
The death of Mustafa Kassem, a U.S. citizen incarcerated by the Egyptian government since August 2013, represents a failure of U.S. policy toward Egypt
After taking power in 2016, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev quickly recognized that growing socioeconomic discontent could destabilize his regime, so he launched a preventative program of political and economic reforms.
As the tenth anniversary of the first uprising of the Arab Spring approaches, massive and sustained popular uprisings in Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, and Lebanon have shown that the Arab world is far from finished with the question of democracy.
The British, French, and German foreign ministers have formally accused Iran of breaking the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a step that could lead to sanctions. Are the Europeans preparing to pull the plug?
There was too little discussion of the current crisis with Iran and too little about each candidate’s conception of the U.S. role in world.
Borrowing from the World Bank not only makes economic sense for China but it also benefits the World Bank.
History shows that, most of the time, the reactions of great powers to attacks have more lasting consequences than the attacks themselves.
Qaboos seemed an anachronism in his final years on the throne, a temperate leader in an intemperate Middle East. His passing has huge consequences for the fate of his temperate model, with all its imperfections.
A new book by Ben Ryan takes a distinctly Western anxiety and characterizes what many consider to be “the West” as something of a myth that is reaching a point of decline that may lead to its extinction as an idea.
Under Soleimani’s command, Iran became the only country in the region capable of harnessing both Shiite extremism and, at times, Sunni radicalism too.
Presidents make lonely, difficult decisions about the use of force to protect U.S. interests—usually with the solace of knowing at least that diplomacy had failed. The tragedy of the current plight is that diplomacy was succeeding before it was abandoned.
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